The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-01-28

eaten by chickens or other domesti,
animals, as there is reason TO believ,
that it will infect them, and tbey il
turn, through their meat, other human
beings.
Whenever a place is threatened with
an epidemic of any contagious disease
the local board of health, or the town
council, should appoint few discreet
persons who should go from house to
house and instruct the people in wba,
they should do to avoid the threatened
danger This should be done without
creating an alarm. The town should
be thoroughly and scientifically clean.
ed and disinfected, and the condition
of the drinking water examined by an
expert.
PRECAUTIONS IN THE SICK ROOM.
/. The sick chamber should be as
large, airy, and pleasant as possible.
1t should be in part of the house
where as much quiet as possible may
be secured. In contagious diseases It
is best to have the sick room in the up
per part OF the house, so that the air
from it will not mingle so much with
the air of the house. The room should
have means for free ventilation without
the production of draught. All un-
necessary articles should be removed
from the room.
2. The patient should be isolated
in the sick room from the visits of all
except his nurses and the physician.
(This does not apply to typhoid fever,
cholera, or dysentery.
3. All glasses, cups, or other vessels
used by the patient, should be cleansed
in boiling water before beng used by
others. And old foods and drinks,
touched and not consumed by the
sick, should be burned or buried.
A. The discharges from the bowels
and from the kidneys should be re-
ceIved on their very issue from the
body into vessels charged with dlsin-
fectants, and, after thorough disinfect-
ion, thrown into the sewer, or, in the
country, buried, at least one hundred
feet from any well or running stream.
In no case should they be thrown on
the surface of the ground or into a
running stream of water. Rags and
paper. which have become contamin-
ated with any discharge, should be
burned at once in strong fire. 1t is
well, in all contagious diseases, to
place piece of rubber cloth under the
patient to prevent the discharges from
soaking into the bed.
5. All articles of the patients cloth
ing, all sheets, towels, napkins, band
ages or sponges about the sick, must,
before being taken from the sick room.
be thrown into tub containing sever
al gallons of solution of chloride of
lime, standard solution, No. ~ and
remain in it three hours. Never carry
any dry clothes from the sick room
without disnfectiop. After disinfect-
ion, they should he thoroughly boiled
6. Perfect cleanliness must be en-
Joined in the room, the nurse, and the
person of the patient. There must
never be bad smell in the room.
7. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that in all contagious diseases the pa.
tient should be under the care of q |
skilled physician.
The patient should not mingle with
the public until the physician certifies
that there is no danger of cpntagion;
he will not be we'll 80 long as the skin
is unhealthy or peeling off, or as there
are any sores in the mouth, throat, or
nose, or any symptoms of dropsy. He
should then, under the direction of his
physician, take several warm baths
and put on new suit of clothes be-
fore going in public. He will neel
to be careful of exposing himself. for
some weeks, until his strength is fully
recovered.
IN REGARD TO BuRIALs.
After death the body should at once
be wrapped in sheet saturated will.
a solution of corrosive sublimate (stand.
ard solution, No. p and buried as soon
as possible. The funerals should be
private. Newspapers should, in notice
OF death mention disease, that people
may remain away. Undertakers should
not furnish chairs at funerals of those
who have died from contagious dis
eases, and such articles as they regu-
larly use in their business, if taken to
such a house, should be washed with
solution of corrosive sublimate before
being used elsewhere.-From Circ,.-
lar No. 20 Of the State Board of